In the last week we've been in The Guardian, Joystiq, Gamasutra - how many other gambling games can say that?

After 2.5 years in development, the world's first gambling MMORPG enters Beta on Friday, July 12, 2013, 12:00 Noon EDT.

We'll be celebrating all weekend with tournaments, drinks & cigars, and special player awards. Everyone included in this newsletter has created a character in Dragon's Tale, or in our other game, "A Tale in the Desert," but many of you have not been in Dragon's Tale in some time. Dragon's Tale now has:

* 61 gambling games, all novel * A Level System based on completing gambling quests * Dragon's Treasures, which are bundles of Bitcoins earned at a rate based on your Level * A Mentorship system where your students can earn Dragon's Treasures for you * A Tournament system that allows luck games to be played at an advantage (and much more) * A Governance system that allows private control of a part of Dragon's Tale

We'll celebrate Beta with over 10 BTC worth of giveaways. Some of these will be freeroll tournaments, and others will be most accessible to those that deposit. Which brings up another new Dragon's Tale feature...

Dragon's Tale now accepts credit cards, for anyone playing from outside the United States. Within the game we now have ATMs where you can buy Bitcoins (Dragon's Tale's native currency) with a credit card, and cash out your winnings to that same card. US players are still welcome when playing directly with Bitcoins.

It will be great to see everyone back - this should be a wonderful weekend.

A Tale in the Desert, owned and operated by Andrew Tepper (also known as Teppy and Pharaoh, in-game) of eGenesis, sponsored and condoned a game-wide event that introduced sexual discrimination, upsetting a large portion of female players. The event was known throughout the game as "The Trader Malaki" in which a character named Malaki traveled throughout Egypt trading rare goods. Players lined up,waiting a great deal of time, to trade with Malaki but when a female character's turn to trade came, she was greeted with comments such as "Who is your master?", refusing to trade good with her stating that he did not trade with "slaves." As the event continued, female characters were continually treated to defamatory slurs and sexual discrimination, inciting a riot within the game.

A Tale in the Desert, owned and operated by Andrew Tepper (also known as Teppy and Pharaoh, in-game) of eGenesis, sponsored and condoned a game-wide event that introduced sexual discrimination, upsetting a large portion of female players. The event was known throughout the game as "The Trader Malaki" in which a character named Malaki traveled throughout Egypt trading rare goods. Players lined up,waiting a great deal of time, to trade with Malaki but when a female character's turn to trade came, she was greeted with comments such as "Who is your master?", refusing to trade good with her stating that he did not trade with "slaves." As the event continued, female characters were continually treated to defamatory slurs and sexual discrimination, inciting a riot within the game.